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Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez". My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites. This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html Other links: http://www.freew…

I remember AOHell, HaVoK

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 53. This rather crude little website I wrote has been online for 14 years (since 1999). Some folks subsequently have monkeyed around with some of the content, but the basic design is mine, still intact. http://rivervalleyradio.com

It's held up pretty well!

    
:)

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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post #16

I am 28, I started writing code at 9. Started writing AOL "proggies" at about 11. Wrote mail servers, mass mailers, and some other fun tools for distributing "warez". My handle was "chud" (shamefully). I wrote tools called Tragic, Mystified, and Tsunami -- all still found on random angelfire sites. This one still has screenshots of some of my programs: http://amp.00server.com/server.html Other links: http://www.freew…

I remember AOHell, HaVoK

Haha I used to write utilities as well but I can't remember what they were called (punters, IM clients, etc).

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 45. Oldest code I could find is 18 years old. Game was from 1995 - last code drop was 1998. I thought I had some Commodore stuff from the early/mid-80's up, but can't find it. Ack! :) http://www.ratajik.net/TunnelWars/ (And YES, that IS a OS/2 program!)

... and yeah, that site DOES look like it was written in the 90's... as it WAS written in the 90's and hasn't been updated!

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 40.

My Commodore 64 game "Space Caverns 64" was published in Run Magazine in 1986, and you can get it here: https://archive.org/stream/run-magazine-36/Run_Issue_36_1986...

(Note: there are a bunch of ugly tricks to get the code to fit onto one single C64 40x25 character screen.)

Re: How old are you and what's your oldest code online?

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I'm 46. The oldest thing I can find online is from 1987. (I totally forgot I wrote it.)

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/coda/src/coda/coda-src... (and various other files in that directory)

Sorry it's a bit boring, but the "online" requirement kind of skews the answers, doesn't it? Should I upload some more-interesting older code so it can be online too? :)

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